July 4, 2020. Historically I have written posts inspired by the fourth of July on the topic of freedom. But this year feels different. There is so much tension in our society right now and the two main causes of this tension are each have deep roots in the lack of freedom. The country that…
Tag: Jesus
A Meditation on Communion
How the Lord’s Supper continues to speak in our time
That one time Israel basically destroyed a whole tribe because of injustice.
An uncomfortable story in the bible that uniquely speaks to us today. The book of Judges, especially the end of the book, contains several stories that are, well… very hard to read. They are stories of depravity, a fallen world and people “doing what is right in their own eyes.” They are stories from a…
New Year, New Creation Pt. 3: Resurrection
February 14, 2020. Welcome back to the New Year, New Creation series. Although this is not the final post I have planned, I do think this one is the most important in terms of theology as it is about the central tenet of the Christian faith. So, if you don’t read any other posts in…
Reclaiming Christmas.
December 25, 2017. I started to begin this post with several criticisms that people often levy at the celebration of Christmas, but I decided that this organization detracted from the point that I would like to make in this post. Throughout my life in the tradition I grew up in I have been taught time…
Genesis One: God as Creator.
October 2, 2016. Today I am beginning a class on Genesis of which a friend asked me to cover the first four lessons. We are going to be discussing topics in Genesis throughout the class and drawing truths and applications to our own lives. We aren’t going to go through every chapter, verse by verse,…
A plea for unity.
September 18, 2016. Ramifications of the reformation. It is an understatement to say that there is a lot of division in the church today. Though it seems that people have been divisive from the beginning (see I Corinthians 1-3), today the amount of separation in the entirety of Christendom is both disheartening and damaging to…
Followship.
September 11, 2016. This weekend I had the opportunity to plan a men’s retreat with a couple of my good friends from church. We decided on the theme of “Service” or being a servant, and there was a particular lesson that I wanted to teach about serving one another in the church. I will admit…
Lazarus and the Resurrection.
August 21, 2016. This week a group of us got together to do a bible study, and we talked about the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead (I know, I keep using my past week as prompts, but I’ve just gotten some good ideas from these discussions!), and during the discussion, someone brought…
Ready to die, but not on a cross.
August 14, 2016. “And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” (Mark 8:34) This past week at a bible study that the guys do on Thursday morning, my friend Jacob said something…
Thorny ground.
July 31, 2016. There are four types of soil that Jesus talks about in His famous parable of the sower. I’ve heard this story many times, as you may have as well, as it is almost the textbook example to teach what a parable is and how to interpret them, since Jesus explicitly does this…
I go a fishing.
July 24, 2016. “Simon Peter said to them, ‘I am going fishing.’ They said to him, ‘We will go with you.’” (John 21:3a) There is a phrase in the KJV rendition of this story that has resonated with me many times throughout the years, though I’m not quite sure that I have always known why….
Twenty Eight Eighteen 